Walter Wager Quotes

I love the spy genre.

I've always loved spy stories. Who can resist?

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

There are few archbishops in espionage. He's on our side and that's all that matters. Besides, one needn't ask him to one's club.

When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.

What I really found was that the one similarity between 'Covert Affairs' and 'Fair Game' is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.

My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.

I spent a whole career infiltrating places.

For an old spy and codebreaker like myself, nothing in the world happens by coincidence.

I really wanted to be a spy. I guess it's a bit like acting, where you play a role.

I didn't think that and I didn't verbalize that to myself or within meetings that we ever had, but we wanted to make a hard-nosed, gritty, realistic spy thriller. Roger talked about using lenses. He shot hi-def, but using anamorphic lenses that he'd found from this warehouse. He was so thrilled with that. Him and Romain [Lacourbas] were just like kids in a toy store with their lenses.

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

Everybody thinks it's glamorous and this spy versus spy stuff is so exciting, but working in that industry and being a CIA operative, like a field officer, is tough. That's a difficult job that usually dismantles their lives in some capacity.

We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay.

The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.

Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

'Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun.

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.